Contested Commemoration in U.S. History: Diverging Public Interpretations

This edited volume contains fresh interpretations of public history and collective memory that explore the evolving relationship between the U.S. and its past. An indispensable text for students, scholars and practitioners interested in Historical Memory, Public History and American Studies.

Author: Klara Stephanie Szlezák
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 10/08/2019
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780367249489

About the Author

Melissa M. Bender is a senior lecturer and the associate director of Writing Across the Curriculum at the University of California, Davis. Her monograph, Dysfunctional Family Values: Nurturing the Neoliberal Self in U.S. Memoir, will be published in 2020. Her research interests include visual and material rhetoric, writing studies, and American cultural studies.

Klara Stephanie Szlezák is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in American Studies at the University of Passau, Germany. She is the author of "Canonized in History" Literary Tourism and 19th-Century Writers' Houses in New England. Her research interests include museum studies, visual culture studies, and the history of immigration.